How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing baffled? We certainly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...